The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bradley Mabunda damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Bloemfontein Celtic
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Chippa United kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Bloemfontein Celtic will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic
Dean Phiri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Siyabonga Mothiba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
One of those days for Dean Phiri
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Khama Dala falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Thamsanqa Dala at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bloemfontein Celtic.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bloemfontein Celtic and Chippa United take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Dean Vilakazi will replay that one
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
In brief
- Squad Bloemfontein Celtic pick somebody else ahead of S'fiso Hlanti
- Market The Ramahlwe Mphela story refuses to die